In 1997 he gave the museum a painting by Pat Steir, and since then has donated several other works, including Georgia O'Keeffe's seminal 1930 painting "Black White and Blue."

This isolated 16th-century chapel - now used just once a year - contains the carved crucifixion that inspired two of Gauguin's seminal paintings: the Yellow Christ, 1889, and a self-portrait.

These seminal paintings were all the more impressive for turning up in such an unexpected setting.

Based on the true story behind the seminal 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the story follows the eponymous character's conflicted life as a mixed-race girl raised in nobility in 18th century England.

Following that seminal painting, she painted over 50 portraits in the next three years with the zeal of a committed professional artist.

Matisse's seminal painting Le bonheur de vivre (The joy of Life), from 1905 can be cited as an important precedent.

Travelers among Mountains and Streams, a large hanging scroll, is Fan Kuan's best known work and a seminal painting of the Northern Song school.

Pollock produced his seminal paintings after his move in 1945 from Greenwich Village to seven acres on Accabonac Creek in Springs.

Harold Rosenberg seemed to prefer the action painters like Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, as well as the seminal paintings of Arshile Gorky.

His two seminal paintings from this period are Introduccion a la esperanza (Introduction to Hope) and Cerrado por brujería (Closed for Sorcery), both from 1963.